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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1968
Page
1
Snipers opened fire on a police tow truck in Cleveland killing ten people including three policemen. National Guardsmen patrolled East Side flats as looting and fires raged, with at least 19 injured and 200 homeless. An unofficial damage estimate exceeded 100000 dollars.
Neosho County commissioners set the 1969 tax levy at 29.04 mills, down from 33.55 mills a year ago. The board cited higher valuation after re assessment and an increase of about half a mill. 1968 valuation was $39,824,078 versus $32,694,477 last year.
A bolt of lightning hit an Italian army gasoline dump near Ravanazzano, 22 miles from Pavia, igniting flames and causing gas to spill into a village canal. Twenty five houses damaged and one collapsed. four of 3000 residents injured. Firefighters from Pavia Voghera and Milan fought the blaze for three hours.
An intercepted letter to Cha questions how extending voting time to seven a.m. to seven p.m. on election day will affect ballot turnout. It notes the two extra hours and ponders if more ballots will be cast.
Chanute resident Mrs. T. E. Henson reported at 11 45 p m that a girl she admitted to use the telephone stole her purse containing about $100. The suspect fled with the purse after offering a fictitious name and asking for a loan. Investigation continued.
A chlorine compound cloud from the FMC Corp plant in South Charleston triggered evacuations of thousands across South Charleston and nearby Dunbar. Over 200 people sought treatment for inhalation and irritation as fire raged until 3 30 a m EDT. No plant personnel were injured.
A break-in at the Christian Science church at 18 N. Forest was reported to police at 1 35 p m yesterday. Fifty cents was taken from a match box after an apparent effort to pry the front door. a glass pane was broken to gain entry.
Pittsburg State College in Pittsburg Kansas receives a 14300 National Science Foundation grant to be matched by Kansas state funds. The money will buy scientific equipment for the biology department.
Mau rice Carter, 12, of Emporia, drowned Tuesday while swimming with friends in a farm pond southeast of Emporia city limits. He was the son of Mrs. Clemon Carter.
Unconfirmed reports say Leonid Brezhnev and the Soviet Politburo head for Czechoslovakia for a crucial talk with Prague’s new Communist leaders on reform plans. The trip, reported by Tanjug from Moscow, marks the first Politburo visit outside Russia. Time and venue unclear amid military maneuvers and cautious Czechoslovak officials.
Elaine Buttermore 19, daughter of the Rev and Mrs Vernie Buttermore, won the Woodson County Hay Queen title at the Yates Center High School auditorium pageant. She performed a piano Polonaise in A Major and will advance to the Miss Kansas Pageant next year.
Mrs. Florence Kelley announced Saturday changes to postal service effective this Saturday. Windows open 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Delivery limited to three types: general delivery, notices to call, and hold mail ready for pickup with no financial transactions. Main Street box collections moved from 5 p.m. to 4 p.m. Normal city and rural route delivery continues.
Washington AP The Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused to restore nearly 1 billion dollars cut by the House from President Johnsons foreign aid request and trimmed an additional 22.9 million. Observers say the eventual total may fall to about half the original ask as hearings and other reductions continue. Rep. George Mahon predicts the final money bill could be about 400 million under authorization, under 1.6 billion overall.
The budget calls for a total 1 493 694 dollar levy up from 1 411 017.58. Recreation is 1 40 mills this year versus 1 58 last year. Bond funds levy totals 98 226 55 dollars in 1968-69, up from 123 000 last year. Public hearing on August 5 at 8 p.m. in the Board of Education Office.
A white rabbit captured by patrolman Chuck Ambler is held at the police station for claim after being found running loose near a 14th street car wash during a routine patrol. Officers confined the animal in a pasteboard box awaiting its owner.
Paris AP reports Algeria continues to detain the hijacked El Al Boeing 707 with 21 of 22 Israeli citizens aboard after releasing 23 non Israeli passengers. The June 7 flight from Rome to Israel was diverted to Algiers by three Front for the Liberation of Palestine members. Three Jewish non Israeli passengers were sent to Marseille.
Allied forces clashed with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops across southeastern and central South Vietnam. A large 122 mm rocket base near Da Nang was struck by enemy fire, while U.S. and South Vietnamese forces repelled infiltrators near Saigon and Long An Province. Casualties included ten American soldiers and three enemy fatalities. air and artillery strikes supported the action as civilians faced displacement.
In Paris at the 14th peace talks Ambassador Harriman urged North Vietnam to acknowledge the Saigon government in any settlement. He cited renewed Viet Cong violence around Saigon after a mid June lull and said he would present Johnson Nguyen Van Thieu’s Honolulu peace appeal to Hanoi.
Kansas traffic death log tallies 24 hours to 9 am Wednesday with one previously unreported fatality. The July 21 1968 period shows 328 fatalities and comparable totals around 350 for the period.
Lt. Gov. John Crutcher Republican gubernatorial candidate and J. D. Baumgardner of Parsons will visit Chanute Saturday. Baumgardner is unopposed in the August 6 primary for state senate District 9 covering Wilson Neosho and Labette counties.
Reports say severe storms struck eastern Kansas with 75 to 100 mph winds and rainfall over five inches in places. Westmoreland recorded 8.55 inches as flood warnings spread along several creeks and rivers, with Topeka and surrounding areas hit hard and widespread damage noted.
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